Comic Life software lends itself well to creating a variety of projects. This page will cover the use of Comic Life software in preparing a school yearbook. The software is easy to work with and allows you to add creative touches such as callouts, text boxes and expressive lettering. Pictures can have different effects applied to them that allow you to create different looks.
Where to begin?
First step would be to advertise and recruit a working committee (those interested in art, photography and computers would be ideal) for this project.
Ideally this committee would be setup early in the school year and a planning session could take place.
Create a mockup book to get a visual idea of how the yearbook will look. Consider the pages and categories that may be included such as:
Title page, Principal's Message, Staff, Classes, Thanksgiving, Hallowe'en, Christmas, Field Trips, Sports, Clubs, Awards, Autographs, Milestone Events, Candid Photos, etc.
Establish a budget to get an idea of the expenses that will be incurred and to determine the selling price of the yearbook. If you are considering fundraising see our Resource area below for the handout on: Reducing Yearbook Cost.
Resources
The following resources sheets provide information for the planning stage of your yearbook:
Comic Life does not have photo correcting tools. Photoshop Elements can help you with any photo fixing you may need to do. You may need to do red eye removal, sharpen a photo, cropping (keep in mind that most cropping can be taken care of in Comic Life).
File Format
The default file format for Comic Life is a .comicdoc file. When working with this file format files can only be opened by computers that have this software. Comic Life can be saved as a pdf file or as an image file, such as .jpg.
To save as a pdf at an OCDSB site: File > Print > in the dropdown box for the printers select the PDF printer and click OK. This will bring up the Save As box and allow you to save the file as PDF. Hint: Make note of where the file is saved and then you can locate file when needed.
Need some other images? Consider Flickr.com which is an online sharing site used by photographers to upload images and to share images.
Creating a Yearbook with Comic Life
Comic Life software lends itself well to creating a variety of projects. This page will cover the use of Comic Life software in preparing a school yearbook. The software is easy to work with and allows you to add creative touches such as callouts, text boxes and expressive lettering. Pictures can have different effects applied to them that allow you to create different looks.
Where to begin?
First step would be to advertise and recruit a working committee (those interested in art, photography and computers would be ideal) for this project.
Ideally this committee would be setup early in the school year and a planning session could take place.
Create a mockup book to get a visual idea of how the yearbook will look. Consider the pages and categories that may be included such as:
Title page, Principal's Message, Staff, Classes, Thanksgiving, Hallowe'en, Christmas, Field Trips, Sports, Clubs, Awards, Autographs, Milestone Events, Candid Photos, etc.
Establish a budget to get an idea of the expenses that will be incurred and to determine the selling price of the yearbook. If you are considering fundraising see our Resource area below for the handout on: Reducing Yearbook Cost.
Resources
The following resources sheets provide information for the planning stage of your yearbook:
Establishing a theme: Theme%20basics.pdf
Things to consider for your yearbook decisions: Traditional yearbook organization.pdf
Sponsorship information: reducing-cost-yearbook.pdf
Layout Pages
The attached pages can be used as templates for your yearbook class pages.
16 image class page.comicdoc
Autographs.comicdoc
Mrs. Left page.comicdoc
Mr Right page.comicdoc
With Sports Team Page.comicdoc
Need to fix some photos?
Comic Life does not have photo correcting tools. Photoshop Elements can help you with any photo fixing you may need to do. You may need to do red eye removal, sharpen a photo, cropping (keep in mind that most cropping can be taken care of in Comic Life).
File Format
The default file format for Comic Life is a .comicdoc file. When working with this file format files can only be opened by computers that have this software. Comic Life can be saved as a pdf file or as an image file, such as .jpg.
To save as a pdf at an OCDSB site: File > Print > in the dropdown box for the printers select the PDF printer and click OK. This will bring up the Save As box and allow you to save the file as PDF. Hint: Make note of where the file is saved and then you can locate file when needed.
Need some other images? Consider Flickr.com which is an online sharing site used by photographers to upload images and to share images.